| Global Lipid Survey: White Oak River Estuary, NC, USAThis estuary has been shown to harbor large communities of the obscure Miscellaneous Crenarchaea Group. In October 2010, together with scientists at the Univeristy of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and a MARUM postdoc stationed at this campus (C. Lazar), we collected estuarine sediment cores to explore the distribution of MCG and its intact polar lipid signatures, as well as the geochemical anomolies that give rise to their dominance of the archaeal community. In addition, we are working with microbiologists at the University of Regensburg to establish the first laboratory culture of MCG.
Associate researchers: Dr. Andreas Teske (UNC), Dr. Casandre Lazar (UNC), Dr. Howard Mendlovitz (UNC), Dr. Emma Gagen (Univ. Regensburg), Nadine Goldenstein (Univ. Bremen), Gina Kuippers (Univ. Bremen) mehr... |
